Apr 2, 2012 - Installed fuel selector in center console. |
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Apr 4, 2012 - Painted and installed nose wheel strut. |
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Apr 4, 2012 - Installed shock cord ring. Afterwards,
I could not turn the strut even with pry bar through the fork. |
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Apr
12, 2012 - Spent several hours of researching, removing and re-installing the strut, shock cord and the support block.
I finally removed the V shaped support block and milled the surface flat. |
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Apr 12, 2012 - Reassembled the strut, support block and shock cord,
with lots of lithium grease. These helped a little with the stiffness, but did not fix the problem. |
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Apr 13, 2012 - Painted steering rods connecting rudder pedals to nose
wheel. Add shrink wrap at point where the rods would go trough the firewall slider panels. |
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Apr 13, 2012 - Installed the steering rods through the firewall.
Looks nice, but really did not work. Going to replace the metal slider plates with something else. |
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Apr 21, 2012 - Following the plan demensions, the rudder cables would
be very close to the control stick cross tube. The pilot side actually rubbed. |
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Apr 21, 2012 - I removedd the nylon bearings I had previous installed,
and replaced with new ones. Moved the hole down 7 mm. Plenty of clearance for rudder
cables now. |
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Apr 23, 2012 - Made plate to cover hole in bottom of fuselage for old
gascolator location. |
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Apr 30, 2012 - Gascolator pass-through backing plate on cabin side of
firewall. |
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Apr 30, 2012 - Gascolator installed on firewall. |
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Apr 30, 2012 - Installing fuel lines from fuel selector to left &
right tanks. |
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Apr 30, 2012 - Routing of the fule line from the fuel selector output
to the gascolator. |
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Apr 30. 2012 - Fuel line connection to the gascolator pass-through. |
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